genrader's Journal: LoTR and such as is life

Well after hearing people for a year and a half tell me, an ubergeek (although I don't /really/ look like one, no glasses or polyester pants) who is a Star Trek and Star Wars aficionado, you have to wonder why I never was interested. I've always been a really big sci-fi kind of guy, none of this medevial crap. Give me laser guns & starships over a sword and horse anyday of the week. Well, I finally toned down about it a little and decided to watch the Fellowship of the Ring about a year ago (Spring break of 2003 I believe) and got hooked. Few months later I got to watch the Two Towers, and then when I got the two for home watch myself in January, I believe I wrote something about it earlier.

Anyway, so I found this amazingly cool site called the Encyclopedia of Arda telling you everything, I mean pretty much everything you wanted to know about the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, the Simillarion and such. It's great, now I know more than most LoTR freaks...and I don't presume to be one, it's just an interesting series. I read all the books in February when my computer was down.

Gah, now I have to cancel Star Wars Galaxies, I'm getting sort of sick of it too. Need to find a way to keep it open...oh well, time to finish reading the latest Maddox article.

EDIT at 12:02pm--
I was just meta moderating here at Slashdot and found something interesting, you people should give this comment a read.